Dialogue

 1 Intro|   Sophist, the second is the enquiry into the nature of Not-being,
 2 Intro|      a labourious process of enquiry, when he had already admitted
 3 Intro|   success in the rest of the enquiry.~Then now let us return
 4 Intro| result of a long and tedious enquiry; by a great effort he is
 5 Intro|   result of exact or serious enquiry, but is floating in the
 6  Soph|    of definition and line of enquiry which we want.~THEAETETUS:
 7  Soph|   your mind from this way of enquiry, for never will you show
 8  Soph|   the real difficulty of the enquiry into the nature of it.~THEAETETUS:
 9  Soph|   all, let us now pursue the enquiry, as the argument suggests,
10  Soph|     the scope of the present enquiry, if peradventure we may
11  Soph|    which we proposed to make enquiry?~THEAETETUS: Surely we cannot
12  Soph|    thoughts from this way of enquiry.’~THEAETETUS: Yes, he says
13  Soph|   opposite of being, to that enquiry we have long said good-bye—